Seagrass in Coastal Areas are Trapping Plastic as Humans Don t Cut Pollution
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Underwater seagrass in coastal areas appear to trap bits of plastic in natural bundles of fibre known as Neptune balls, researchers said Thursday.
With no help from humans, the swaying plants anchored to shallow seabeds may collect nearly 900 million plastic items in the Mediterranean alone every year, they reported in the journal Scientific Reports. We show that plastic debris in the seafloor can be trapped in seagrass remains, eventually leaving the marine environment through beaching, lead author Anna Sanchez-Vidal, a marine biologist at the University of Barcelona, told AFP.